Sheer Heart Attack

Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by Queen. It was released on 1974-11-01 on vinyl and produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker. The album uses strong glam rock and progressive rock themes with an over all hard rock sound. This is the last album to contain Freddie's mythical rock songs, all subsequent albums feature songs with more realistic themes.

I bought this album in the mid-1990s, and it was the very first album I ever bought for myself with my own money. It quickly became, and has remained, one of my favorite albums. When I bought this album, the only songs I knew from it were Killer Queen, Now I'm Here, and Stone Cold Crazy, from greatest hits albums and radio play. I was eager to hear new music and I was certainly intrigued by most of the songs which are noticeably different than the music on the compilation albums. This was the first time I had ever heard an album overlay one song with another as a segue rather than fade to silence between each track. The first time I listened to this album, I thought it was a bad move to begin with "Brighton Rock," particularly because of May's long guitar solo. Although I like both the song and the solo, I didn't feel like it properly set the pace or mood of the album.